Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Bok chose Vorenberg in 1981--largely without faculty input--law professors resolved to elect their own search committee to advise the next dean search, hoping to ensure that the president would appoint a dean to their liking...
...highly placed source said yesterday that Bok will name Professor of Law Robert C. Clark to the law deanship, despite strong reservations from the five-member faculty committee that advised the president on this year's search...
...selection of Clark, said committee member and Professor of Law David M. Kennedy, "goes to show that Bok is out of step with the majority of the faculty...
Clark--who was originally elected to serve on the faculty committee--is known as much for his caustic attacks on the radical Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement as for his nationally recognized scholarship on corporate law...
...committee members contacted yesterday said that Clark's outspoken opposition to Harvard's CLS proponents made him the candidate least likely to quell the political turmoil the Law School has seen in recent years...